Radio Mashaal is a public-service broadcaster providing a powerful alternative to extremist propaganda in Pakistan's remote tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan.
Gunmen on motorcycles have shot dead two Pakistani police officers who were guarding a polio-vaccination team in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, a police official told RFE/RL on August 1.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 54 people and wounded 100 others at a political rally in northwest Pakistan held by a religious group allied with the government.
Two police officers were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in northwestern Pakistan on July 20 when two suicide bombers attacked a security and administrative compound in the Bara Tehsil neighborhood of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan.
The head of the Pakistani Army has threatened the Taliban-led government in Kabul with an "effective response" if it continues harboring militants who launch attacks in Pakistan.
Four soldiers and at least three gunmen were killed when a group of suspected militants attacked a Pakistani Army outpost in the restive Balochistan region of Pakistan, while a woman bystander caught in the cross fire has also died, the army and a regional administration chief said on July 12.
The Pakistani Army's press department says six suspected militants were killed in multiple shoot-outs in Tank and North Waziristan on June 29-30.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has criticized Pakistan's powerful military for the harsh crackdown on his Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) political party in the aftermath of violent mob attacks on the military following his arrest last month.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal on June 28, Khan suggested that Pakistan cannot "turn into a real democracy" until the military stops meddling in politics.
Irfan Mehsud has set dozens of records with displays of strength. He and members of his fight academy in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province are serial winners. Mehsud started the academy to help youths who were forced to flee South Waziristan after a 2009 crackdown on Taliban militants.
Authorities in Pakistan on June 12 began evacuating tens of thousands of people who are at “high risk” of an approaching cyclone that is expected to bring high winds along the coastline of the Arabian Sea regions of Pakistan and India.
Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir has returned home after being abducted by unidentified armed men in the southern city of Karachi.
An Afghan singer who was well-known for supporting the Taliban has fallen foul of the militants. Khosh Naseeb was arrested after putting Taliban verses to music.
At least nine people were killed in an avalanche that occurred in northern Pakistan close to the border with China, officials said on May 27.
A suicide attacker slammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a convoy of military vehicles in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region that borders Afghanistan on June 27, wounding 23 troops.
Three police officers were wounded in an attack by gunmen on May 25 on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province that borders Afghanistan, officials told RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif says Pakistan's government is mulling a ban on former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party, which he accused of attacking the basis of the state amid a deepening political crisis in the South Asian nuclear power.
Four policemen and two private security guards were killed in an attack by dozens of gunmen on a Hungarian-owned gas and oil extraction facility in northwestern Pakistan, officials said on May 23.
Two schools for girls in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the border with Afghanistan were blown up overnight apparently by gunmen, regional officials told RFE/RL on May 22.
At least 16 people have been killed and three were wounded in armed clashes triggered by a dispute over the ownership of a coal mine in northwestern Pakistan, police said.
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman on May 13 assailed a Supreme Court ruling that led to the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose arrest by the anti-corruption agency had set off nationwide protests.
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